[Assam] The ULFA has denied it and projects your country's security agencies as the guilty party. Can you disprove it SH? Remember, the abduction of the five foreign nationals and beheading of the Norwegian in J&K mystery is shrouded in secrecy even today.

[Bartta Bistar]

*NORTH by NORTH EAST*

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=14&theme=&usrsess=1&id=119873

SANJOY HAZARIKA
Condemn cowardly killers

The cowardly killers who placed a crude IED (Improvised Explosive Device) in
a bag of vegetables on Friday afternoon in Guwahati's busy Machkhowa
vegetable market demonstrated once again that there are terrorists in Assam,
that they have no compunction or conscience, as brutal shadowy figures, in
striking at the vulnerable. There are intelligence and police reports which
say that the banned United Liberation Front of Asom planned and organised
the strike, a view that, at the time of writing, has neither been confirmed
or denied by Ulfa.
This has, of course, become standard for the organisation except in the
rarest of cases where it issues a statement either taking credit or
rejecting views that it was involved. It should not forget that it is on the
US administration's watch list of terrorist organisations and as one State
Department official said recently: "It is difficult to get on that list but
nearly impossible to get off it."
Deepak Dutt, Assam's director-general of police, told me it could not be but
Ulfa and that it had been made fairly well known that the group would try
and hit official targets between 9 and 11 June. The time-table seems a bit
awry: the attacks began a day earlier, on the 8th with assaults on police
positions and other centres, wounding over 30 persons in four towns. Then
came the big blast at Machkhowa, not far from the banks of the Brahmaputra
and in one of the busiest parts of the region's commercial and political
hub.
Whichever group is responsible, such murderous crimes cannot be regarded as
pro-people, no matter how hard it proclaims itself as such. All civil
society groups, especially the human rights organisations and the Peoples
Consultative Group, must condemn such attacks unconditionally and demand
that those responsible for it come forward. If Ulfa is not involved, it
should say so. Could there have been a mix-up of messages ~ did it want to
pressure the Centre for a fresh round of talks with its PCG representatives
and issue instructions to cadres to attack to show its intent? If so, then
it made another bloomer: the Centre announced that such talks would take
place on 22 June. Perhaps, Ulfa does not have the capacity to communicate
effectively with its field groups. Or could it be that there is a group
within Ulfa which is opposed to the talks? This last possibility is unlikely
but not ruled out. Such attackers deserve the toughest punishment under our
legal system. And since the wheels of justice grind slow, it would be
appropriate that they suffer the tension of long trials and prison captivity
before sentences are received.
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